MUMBAI: Employee unions of state-run ports today said they have deferred their indefinite strike call to March 16 following deliberations with managements and assurances of a meeting with shipping ministry officials over their demands. The unions ...

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in Union Budget 2015 that government-run ports in India will be encouraged to corporatize and become companies under the Companies Act. In an attempt to professionalize Indian ports, which have been ...

A big push for infrastructure sector with a hefty 70,000 crore increase in investment, that's what Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday announced to pump the economy even though it means postponing by a year to 2017-18 achieving the stiff ...

Even before being launched, the proposed Mumbai-Goa cruise liner service has been left high and dry because no private companies are interested in operating the route. Even before being launched, the proposed Mumbai-Goa cruise liner ...

NEW DELHI: Adani Group, JSW Steel and two other companies are in the race for a Rs 350-crore dredging project at Goa port, the first such scheme on PPP mode at a major port. "The government has decided to undertake the work for deepening of draft ...

PTI reported that cargo traffic rose by 5.04% to 433.86 million tonne at 12 major ports during April to December 2014 as compared to the same period of previous year. These Centre run ports had handled 413.06 million tonne of cargo during April to ...

Coastal security has been beefed up at 12 major ports in the country with installation of advanced surveillance systems and patrolling to avert any untoward incident, a top official has said. The development assumes significance in the wake of US ...